Has anybody used http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/ before for ad blocking? It seems to work a lot better than a plain hosts file itself.

Just this morning, I switched over to Mozilla Firefox. One of the extension for it is called "AdBlock", and it's fantastic. You can right-click on any advertisement, and it gives you the option to nuke it. It also understands IFrame ads and can nuke the whole frame. In short, it does everything that I used to love WebWasher for. WebWasher, unfortunately, has been increasingly breaking sites that play fancy JavaScript games. When you've got your ad-blocking built into the browser, it seems to work a whole lot better.

The only other system like this that I've tried is Privoxy. It does a reasonable job, but again breaks sites that try to play fancy JavaScript games.

I hate to follow up on my own posts, but Firefox + AdBlock is a wonderful, stable thing. It's safe to say that it's better than WebWasher, even when WebWasher was working at its best. The only problem I've found so far is with Weebl & Bob (of all places), which gets a "broken QuickTime" icon, although it's not clear that it ever worked in the first place with Firefox. Can somebody else check this?

I just tried the latest Weebls & Bob and it worked fine. I didn't have the Macromedia Flash player for Firefox so I had to download and install that first though.

It's important to point out that Quicktime Player can also play Flash, so maybe that's why Dan's install is doing QT stuff.

Ack. I hate Quicktime and it's default behaviour to try and grab every single file type association that it knows about. I installed Quicktime here and made sure it only played the Quicktime formats and it still decided to take over MPEG.

I just check and, sure 'nuff, Firefox thinks QuickTime is the default handler for SWF (application/x-shockwave-flash). I tried re-running the Flash installer, which even knew about Firefox, but it didn't work. IE, of course, works just fine. Where are these settings stored? I can't find them anywhere, but I can see the ugliness when I type about:plugins. Do I need to dork with something in my registry?

Do you also have Mozilla installed? The last time I tried the Flash plug in install, it put the plugin in Mozilla Plug-Ins directory instead of the one in the Firefox directory. I copied the files and then flash worked.

At the office, if I need flash (for those POS websites that require it) I use IE, otherwise I use Firefox w/o flash (it cuts down nicely on ads).

-Zeke